Nigella’s Spiced Yoghurt Cake
Serves 12 This delicious cake is made with sugar and spice and all things nice, especially yoghurt, which gives this bake such a wonderful texture. Anything with cinnamon gets my vote and this [Read More]
Gary’s Date, Walnut and Ginger Banana Bread
My ex-colleague Gary gave me this recipe and I'm so pleased he did! This tea bread is dense, moist (there I said it!) and the dates and the walnuts give it add some wonderful crunch and chewiness. The [Read More]
Gooey Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies
Makes about 20 cookies I love relief teaching and have embraced the spontaneity of waking up each morning and wondering if I'll be called into work or not. The only thing I don't like is that it's [Read More]
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Serves 12 This cake has real chocolate both in the cake and the icing, so in my opinion, that makes it twice as nice! This cake will always have a special place in my heart (and my tummy) because [Read More]
Donna Hay’s Lemon Yoghurt Cake
Serves 10-12 What do you do when life gives you lemons? I make lemon cake. When I was back in the mother country recently, we had an excess of both yoghurt and lemons so making this cake was [Read More]
Nigella’s Buttermilk Birthday Cake
This is the only birthday cake recipe you'll ever need. It's super easy, keeps it's shape and tastes all kinds of delicious! I think it was Julia Childs who said "a birthday party without [Read More]
Bill’s Vanilla Whipped Buttercream
I've been fan girling over Bill Grainger for years and this has to be my favourite Bill recipe - it makes perfect buttercream every single time! I first gave it a go when I made Bill's Cake for a [Read More]
No Bake Biscuit Fudge Slice
Cuts into 16 squares You just need a handful of pantry staples to whip up this no bake fudgy chocolatey biscuit slice! I think I found this recipe in an old magazine. It's one of those totally [Read More]
Apricot and Amaretti Cake
Serves 8 generously Now that I'm a wannabe minimalist, I might be less about the gift giving but I'm all about the fuss making, and more to the point, cake making because as Julia Childs once said [Read More]
Nigella’s Rainy Day Biscuits
Makes about 24 (depending on size of your cutters) I love Nigella for so many reasons, and one of them is that she collects cookie cutters, as do I. I haven't counted how many I've got but let's [Read More]
